Write LA Names Top 5 Finalists
Write LA has announced the top 5 finalists of the Write LA Screenwriting Competition:
Sarah Deakins – Violet | Drama Feature
Two attendants working in an underground public bathroom in the seediest part of town develop a friendship with a sex worker who forces them all to face their secrets, as they form the world's most unexpected book club.
Howard Emanuel – Shortstop | Dramedy Pilot
Newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, former minor league baseball shortstop Coyote Ledger learns his ex-wife has bought his rival team, which is being coached by his arch nemesis. To inflame her and impress his baseball phenom son, Coyote maneuvers to become the coach of his former team.
John Enright – Masters and Servants | Historical Drama Feature
On a Long Island estate in the summer of 1939, an American tycoon and a British aristocrat reenter the lives of an Irish chauffeur and his wife, forcing them to confront personal demons and shameful secrets that they thought had been put in the rear-view mirror.
Evan Laughlin – The End of the Pier | Action Thriller Feature
An armed group storms onto a fishing pier, takes all the fishermen hostage, and demands a huge ransom for their release. As the world watches, it begins to appear that there is something deeper going on that this straightforward, if somewhat bizarre, act of criminality.
Susan Marks – All That Glitters | Drama Pilot
A quintessential 1950’s housewife becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder in her pristine suburb, leading to the discovery of a sadistic Nazi doctor hiding in plain sight and the subsequent unraveling of her own life.
Updated: 09/15/2023
Additional Contest Info: Write LA Screenplay & Pilot Competition
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Post Your Script Here!Never Too Late
Sophia doesn’t realize that the men who have been helping her transform from being timid and submissive to becoming a woman with courage and confidence are mafia boss Tony Moretti and his hitman, Marcello.
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker
Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.
Marshal Mart Duggan
The town selected a brawny, gun-fighting Irishman as Marshal to tame the fast-growing, notoriously wild, and depraved new boom town of Leadville, Colorado, in the 1870s.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A washed-out fighter pilot is asked/forced to work with long odds and a resentful younger, more experienced female co-pilot to save the earth by retrieving the doomsday bombs from the backside of the sun before next Wednesday when they’ll explode, nudging the sun, causing major global warming.
Frat Mom
A fraternity in trouble for using illegal schemes to fund their wild parties finds themselves in the hands of an ironfisted frat mom and vows to send her packing.
Hell Gate to Golden Gate
Alice Ramsey is on a mission to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States, but a vengeful bank president, whose wife becomes a suffragette, isn't about to let that happen.
Geode
It’s a race against time to save millions of Americans as Angela Garcia uses her premonition dreams to stop a ruthless cult leader who has unleashed a bio-engineered bacteria.
THE BANNER
Though haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent.
LABYRINTH OF DESTINY
During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a young Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage.
SOUTH WIND COME
A cynical teen views her father's struggle with depression as a sign of weakness.